Translation of "Folgekrankheiten" in English

As the Commissioner has already said, five million people die each year from diseases related to smoking.

In addition, a review of clinical performance as assessed by protection against disease as noted in the V121-018 trial supports the conclusion that the hepatitis B vaccines remain effective in decreasing hepatitis B infection and its serious sequelae.

Elevated intraocular pressure of any aetiology, if left untreated, can lead to serious sequelae including permanent vision loss.

These included further consideration of the PK-PD profile of ponatinib to determine the optimal dosing in all patient populations and indications (including recommendations for initial dose and dose reductions), further assessment of the nature, severity and frequency of all treatment-emergent vascular occlusive adverse events (and possible sequelae), and heart failure, exploration of the potential mechanisms of action leading to vascular occlusive events and consideration of the possibilities for further risk minimisation measures.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, bovine blood dialysates are commercially available e.g. from the firms Byk Gulden, Solco and Chemische Werke Linz under the trade names "Actihaemyl", "Solcoseryl" and "Actovegin", which are used to treat peripheral and central circulatory disturbances and the conditions resulting therefrom.

Also, the use of electrohydraulic lithotripsy involves the risk that when the concretion bursts, the surrounding tissue is injured by the resulting fragments; diseases may consequentially develop.

Definition Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is now considered an infectious disease regardless of whether the affected individual has any symptoms or sequelae.

Accordingly, sterols and stanols are widely used in the food industry because, through their hypocholesterolemic effect, they minimize future diseases, such as atherosclerosis, heart disease and hypertension.

Results: H. pylori is now dealt with as an infection, whether or not the infected individual has symptoms or suffers from an H.-pylori-induced illness.

In case of the periodontics system is diseased, this could be a catalyst for many secondary disorders, which not only could manifest in the mouth area but in the entire body.

Possible sequelae include sleep disorders, depressions, and immune disorders or social consequences such as withdrawal from the community and unemployment.

Individuals with coeliac disease also have an increased risk of developing other serious conditions such as diabetes or cancer. For most of these diseases, the risk can be reduced by following a gluten-free diet.

In the long term, a lack of exercise and physical inactivity can lead to associated illnesses including, overweight, back pain, cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

Pathologically obese patients tend toward various so-called sequelae, of which in particular cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, metabolic disturbances such as diabetes or gout, and psychic disorders such as depressions, but also excessive wear and tear of the joint cartilage or elevated cerebral stroke risk play an important role.

In this connection, pathological obesity also has an extremely negative effect on the national economy of countries since the expenditures relating both to the direct costs (for doctors' treatment and stationary treatment as well as for the corresponding drugs) as well as to the indirect costs (costs for treatment of the secondary diseases) of the obesity amount in certain countries to almost 10% of the overall costs of the health care system.

Tryptophan supplements counteract depression, anxiety attacks and stress symptoms in many patients and are useful for the treatment of anorexia, alcoholism (and its sequelae), and insomnia.

It is also important to prevent kidney stones and sequelae such as obesity, too high levels of fat in the blood, poor kidney function, and too high blood pressure.

To avoid secondary illnesses, the Swiss Heart Foundation recommends that everyone over 18 regularly checks their blood pressure.

It was first explicitly formulated in the Kyoto Global Consensus Report that H. pylori gastritis should be considered an infectious disease regardless of whether the affected individual has any symptoms, complications, or consequent illnesses (2).

Opportunistic infections such as cancer or tuberculosis(*), which is the most common opportunistic infection in Africa, are becoming less common.

The amount and severity of the sequelae depend on how well the blood sugar has been managed.

According to the theory that HIV causes AIDS, when a person is infected by HIV, it infects and kills leucocytes (white blood cells) to such an extent that the individual ends up being the victim of the so-called «opportunistic diseases».